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Ten days or less to act on requests: ASFA

... days for a turnaround was reasonable. "In a choice of fund environment, members have a right to expect their request to switch to another fund to be executed promptly. At the same time, super funds need to be satisfied that the identity and bona fides ...

Education drives choice: Plum

MLC-owned Plum Financial Services has succeeded where most super funds have failed, spurring more than three-quarters of its 110,000-strong members to exercise choice. The Melbourne-based company is a corporate superannuation specialist with a twist. ...

Kingsway Taitz launches new locally based hedge fund administrator

Kingsway Taitz has opened its doors as a new hedge fund administrator, aiming to plug a service gap in the market for locally-based fund managers. According to managing director, Brian Taitz, the gap is that local hedge fund managers sometimes have ...

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

... margin loan providers in the twelve months to December 2005. "Margin lending is an unusual product. Clients are unlikely to switch once they have an account, you have to do something very wrong to lose them." But while the major margin lenders don't ...

Measure super choice the right way: InvestmentLink

Super choice is alive and kicking hard, but its being driven by people taking their old fund to their new employer rather than by traditional rollovers. Latest figures from superannuation information hub specialist InvestmentLink confirm that in just ...

ING walks the line: Number one for customer service

Of the top 10 wealth managers in Australia, ING crossed the line first in a survey of customer service satisfaction. In an AC Nielsen survey of the top 10 wealth managers (by customer share) canvassing 22,527 respondents over the second half of 2005 ...

A year of growth and developing opportunities: Franklin Templeton

Global growth will pull back slightly in 2006 and developing economies will pick up the slack as consumption and GDP growth eases in developed countries, according to Franklin Templeton. At their briefing, Franklin Templeton were certainly not shy of ...

ING software roll-out to reduce the SoA burden

ING is set to roll-out a new online limited advice solution to reduce the Statement of Advice burden for advisers. Using a customised version of XPLAN's financial planning software, ING will launch the online limited advice solution as part of its substantial ...

US defined benefit scheme shake-out continues

In a pre-emptive move to avoid the pension-related miseries of General Motors, US computer giant IBM announced it will close its defined benefit retirement scheme to new employees in favour of a 401(k) system. IBM is the latest of a raft of multinational ...

DirectPortfolio to launch SMA Lite

... allows clients to hold the underlying shares directly, manage their stock transactions in a more tax effective way and switch between one type of SMA to another without paying an extra cost. However, while investors can access a managed fund for as low ...